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2. Languages of Sweden - Wikipedia

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   Swedish is the official language of Sweden and is spoken by the vast majority of the 10.23 million inhabitants of the country. It is a North Germanic language and quite similar to its sister Scandinavian languages, Danish and Norwegian, with which it maintains partial mutual intelligibility and forms a dialect continuum.

3. Germanic languages - Wikipedia

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   The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people [nb 1] mainly in Europe, North America, Oceania, and Southern Africa. The most widely spoken Germanic language, English, is also the world's most widely spoken language with an estimated

4. List of English words of Scandinavian origin - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of English words that are probably of modern Scandinavian origin. This list excludes words borrowed directly from Old Norse ; for those, see list of English words of Old Norse origin .

5. West Germanic languages - Wikipedia

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   English is by far the most-spoken West Germanic language, with more than 1 billion speakers worldwide. Within Europe, the three most prevalent West Germanic languages are English, German, and Dutch. Frisian, spoken by about 450,000 people, constitutes a fourth distinct variety of West Germanic.

6. North Germanic languages - Wikipedia

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   The language group is also referred to as the Nordic languages, a direct translation of the most common term used among Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Swedish scholars and people. The term North Germanic languages is used in comparative linguistics , [ 1 ] whereas the term Scandinavian languages appears in studies of the modern ...

7. List of calques - Wikipedia

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   In more recent times, the Macedonian language has calqued new words from other prestige languages including German, French and English. Macedonian натчовек (natčovek) = calques German-derived 'overman' (Übermensch) Mac. root над- (nad-) = Ger. über = 'over' Mac. root човек (čovek, man) = Ger. mensch = 'people'